Metallic roofing plate or shingle



(No Model.

A. 0. KITTREDGB.

METALLIC ROOFING PLATE 0 SHINGLE.

No. 390,236. Patented Oct. 2, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANSON O. KITTREDGE, OF SLATE HILL, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T'O JACOB S.THORN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

METALLIC ROOFING PLATE OR SHINGLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,236, dated October2, 1888.

Application filed October 20, 1887. Serial No. 252,873. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: of similar form embossed on it and with itsBe it known that I, ANSON O. KITTREDG E, side prolonged to form a fiatlapping-flange. of Slate Hill, Orange county, State of New Fig. 4 is anedge View of this tile or plate on York, have invented a new and usefulIma roof, showing its flange projecting over the 5 provement in MetallicRoofing Plates or Shinside thereof, ready to be bent around and se gles,of which the following is atrue and exact cured. to the edge, as isshown in Fig. 2; and description, reference being had to the draw- Fig.5 is a plan view of a tile of somewhat difings, which accompany and formpart of this ferent pattern, and having both its bottom and 6cspecification. one edge provided with folding flanges. Such To Myinvention relates to that kind'of roofing a plate is to be used at acorner.

material now generally known as metallic A is myimproved plate. shinglesor "tiles, and which is made by B isthe embossed or seamed part of theplate bendingorstamping the edgesofsmallsheets of forming the shingleproper as now generally metal (generally tin) into such forms that theymade.

:5 will register and interlock together, forming G O are the plainbending flanges, which I tight seams between adjoining plates, whichform from the same plate. as the shingle B, and seamsalone, ortogetherwith an ornamental decause to extend out beyond it in the plane of signstamped up in the visible part of the plate, its bottom or unembossedportions. give to a roof the appearance of one covered D represents theroof to which the plates or 20 with tiles. In covering roofs with thiskind shingles are secured. v

of plating, trouble has been met with in secur The adaptabilityof myinvention to all edges ing the shingles to the edges of the roof in andangles of a roof will he at once apprecisuch a way as to at the sametime secure the ated, and the advantage of having the flexible plates inplace and prevent leakage, and where flanges to serve as flushing stripsand clamps 25 a section of roofabutted against ahigher wall, isapparent. The device can be used with or two sections met, formingavalley, it has nearly if not quite all of the numerousembeen usual toemploy separate sheets of tin to bossed metallic shingles in use.re-enforce such points. It is of course not new with me to form a Theobject of myinvention is to furnish speflat edge on the outside of anembossed shino cial shingles adapted for use at the valleys, gle, assuch edges are always provided to serve caves, and angles of a roof; andit consists in as nailing-flanges; but my improved shingle providing theshingles with plain flat uncorruhas, in addition to such nailingflanges, broad gated and unseamed flanges extending out flat extensions,which serve the purposes of from their bottom or side edges and in theflushing strips or clamps, taking the place of 5 plane of the bottom orunembossed portionof the separate metal strips heretofore used for thebent or stamped plate beyond the limits of such purposes, and renderingthe roofs both the shingle proper, so that said plain flanges moresightly and more secure at exposed ancan be bent up or down, either topass around gles than the old devices. 0 the edge of the roof at itsside or bottom, or Having now described my invention, what I 0 to litinto or over a valley or ridgeiu the roof claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters and form what is called a flushing-plate. Patent, is-

Reference being now had to the drawings, As a new article ofmanufacture, an emwhich illustrate my invention, Figure l is a bossedmetallicroofing plate or shingle having, 5 plan View of a metal platehaving the impress in addition to the ordinary nailingflanges, one

4 5 of three diamondshaped tiles struck up on its or more broad fiatplates formed integral with surface, with grooves to facilitate itsengageit and extending out from the shingle proper ment with similarplates, and a plain flange in the plane of its base or uuembossedportion, along its lower edge in the plane of its bottom so as to serveas flushing plates or clamps.

or unembossed surface. Fig. 2 is an edge view ANSON O. KITTREDGE. 50 ofthe same plate secured on a roof and with Vitnesses:

its flange bent around and secured to the eaves. WM. H. OSBORN,

Fig. 3 is a plan View of a plate having a tile 0. (J. TAINTOR.

